On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Stephen Hobbs wrote:
> 
> > / is 74% used however, and I created it as 32MB (I think) as 
> > suggested in the install guide. Should I have made it bigger?

Do you have a seperate /var partition, if you do it shouldn't need to be
bigger...
 
> It looks like it:
> 
> > /: write failed, file system is full
> 
> I guess you have many programmes to compile, so this probably isn't a
> very good workaround, but in my case I had one very big source file.
> One way around filling / was simply to see what gcc -v told me ie.,
> what the exact cc1, as, ld etc commands where and execute them
> sequentially changing the temporary file names to something on a
> bigger partition. Alternatively, maybe temporarily removing /tmp and
> making it a symbolic link to a directory on another partition might do
> it.

You could also try using the option -pipe, however you need lots of memory
to use -pipe as both the compiler and assembler are in memory. 

Chris